linux-kernel - Re: Kernel crash after using new Intel NIC (igb)

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Date:	Tue, 24 May 2011 14:33:27 -0700
From:	Arun Sharma <asharma@...com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Arun Sharma <asharma@...com>,
	Maximilian Engelhardt <maxi@...monizer.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	StuStaNet Vorstand <vorstand@...sta.mhn.de>
Subject: Re: Kernel crash after using new Intel NIC (igb)

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:15:53PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
> Probably not.
> 
> What gives slub_nomerge=1   for you ?
> 

It took me a while to get a new kernel on a large enough sample
of machines to get some data.

Like you observed in the other thread, this is unlikely to be a random
memory corruption.

The panics stopped after we moved the list_empty() check under the lock.

--- a/net/ipv4/inetpeer.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/inetpeer.c
@@ -154,11 +154,11 @@ void __init inet_initpeers(void)
 /* Called with or without local BH being disabled. */
 static void unlink_from_unused(struct inet_peer *p)
 {
+	spin_lock_bh(&unused_peers.lock);
 	if (!list_empty(&p->unused)) {
-		spin_lock_bh(&unused_peers.lock);
 		list_del_init(&p->unused);
-		spin_unlock_bh(&unused_peers.lock);
 	}
+	spin_unlock_bh(&unused_peers.lock);
 }
 
 static int addr_compare(const struct inetpeer_addr *a,

The idea being that the list gets corrupted under some kind of a race
condition. Two threads racing on list_empty() and executing
list_del_init() seems harmless.

There is probably a different race condition that is mitigated by doing
the list_empty() check under the lock.

 -Arun
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